This is called "heuristics" and everyone does this daily (not in a paranormal way). It's aka "common sense." Like everything though, there are wide ranges of skill levels. Some people pay attention to others, consciously or not, and can aggregate and assemble all those clues you mention. Some people pay no attention at all to others, like someone comes into work after a family conflict, stress onbtheir face, not "put together well", and Mr. Its all about me says, "Wow you look terrible." We all know people like that! An astute reader if clues would put things together, sense a hard time, maybe have empathy, then either ease into a kind word or simply give space and say nothing.

Yes, I made them. I used a drawing pad and software called pencil2d and then phitoscape to make the gif. I'd say 1 to 2 hours each. It was actually kind if fun for a while.

This prompt reminded me...during COVID, I guess I got bored from being cooped inside so much. I started making some silly stick figure animations. I made three having to do with a crystal ball medium. For sake of frivolity...

Heh, you might be right.

I considered this and you may well be right. Power must be a really powerful drug because people hang on way too long (Biden, McConnell, Pelosi). Just retire and enjoy the grandkids. For Trump, this still likely applies. But then, 1. he does things differently, 2. this might be a way to actually boost his image ("he stepped down and martyred himself for the good of the cause"), and 3. he might not be able to handle the lame duck situation of no one really paying any attention to you because your clock is ticking and you're done.

The teens that I've interacted with really don't know much about bitcoin. I did a very informal survey a few months ago. With the open-ended question "What is Satoshi Nakamoto famous for?" only 3.5% got it right. Then the multiple choice "Who started bitcoin?" only 41% picked out Satoshi from a choice of five names.

Details or survey at https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@crrdlx/are-you-in-the-three-and-a-half-percent SN convo: #710037

I like https://cashu.me It's browser based so not exactly Android. You can restore from mnemonic seed with it. (Not sure if restoration is cashu.me only or not though.)

Baltimore, right on Chesapeake Bay, he said.

Thanks. That gives me a little context. Total sidenote about dinner with Saylor...short version, a coworker of mine, dated someone who was somehow connected with Saylor from way back when he was nobody, she (and by connection he) got invited to a Saylor family wedding of some sort, he flew a Gulfstream to pick 'em up, they had dinner at one of his places, my coworker buddy said it was absolutely intriguing, especially his library which was huge. -for whatever that's worth

At the end, Scottie Pippen talking about meeting Satoshi "back in '93" (as well as "in a dream"), did the back story on that ever come out? You can't just drop that crazy-bomb then move on! 😀

Gotta grind. Brick by brick.

It takes a bit of messing around with for sure. The odd thing is, when I hear devs talk about nostr, they all say something like how it's crazy simple and how building on it is very open ended. From a user experience, it's different and requires a little getting used to. For me, getting the idea of setting up relays was a learning curve. That and how different clients showed things differently. I think part of it was/is having different relays on different clients. Now, I have them unified and the experience is more uniform.

Yep. I see the same people all the time in my feed, often with many of the same takes. Part of that is because I've been a bit frugal about who I follow. (Made the mistake in other places of doing the polite "follow back" policy and wound up with a bunch of people and content I really don't wish to have in my feed.) When I go to "global" to see what's up, there's lots of people (or bots), but it's also kind of weird.

We're testing the market with things. Some survive and some don't. It's a hard fact of nature but is a good thing and leads to improvement.

Crazy how folks will listen on a whatever podcast app when you can listen on fountain and earn sats. Like listening to a radio station on radio A and earning zero, or listening to the same station on radio B and earning money. I had used the Google podcast app because it was simple and I like simple, somebody suggested fountain to me. As soon as I saw sats being earned, the other was immediately uninstalled.

Yes. When I first joined nostr, it was so bitcoin-centric (still is, love that) in discussion and with zaps (zapathons were so hot then), that I thought nostr was somehow actually part of bitcoin, an L2 or something. The two seemed so correlated, that's exactly why I wrote what's below on the "What is nostr" page.

Confusion is pretty much why I made this converter way back in 2013. Guess things cycle around. https://sbc.on-fleek.app/archive/legacy-20230716/index.html

Get ready for this guy being named a bitcoiner and the old "only criminals use it" blow back narrative. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/us/luigi-mangione-what-we-know-monday/index.html